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Since we have a desert theme today, what better then a post about alternative energy, The Complete Solar Roof from SolarCentury 

SolarCentury has designed the "Complete Solar Roof" that integrates solar electric and solar thermal technologies in a tile that is installed like a conventional roofing tile. The tiles, designed to sit flush with the building's roof structure, generate both power and heat from sunlight.

This guy doesn't seem the least bit embarrassed by My own little home office from hell 

A company called Offices2Share.com has just named the winner of its "Home Offices from Hell Contest."

It's a guy named Jason Welshonse, a computer entrepreneur, who gave 10 reasons he deserved the honor, including:

"It's hard to cram 10 computers into a spare bedroom."

And: "I have started to refer to my pets as employees."

Amateur.

You want to talk chaotic home offices, let's talk.

Years ago, an elderly neighbor named Stella Kapstein called me at work to say my home had been burglarized. The police were there when I arrived. There were empty spaces where the TV and stereo had been.

Then Stella took me upstairs, warning me to brace myself. Whoever had done this was apparently looking for something in my study. She said they'd ransacked it _ tossed papers and books everywhere.

I walked in. Stella stood next to me shaking her head.

"Look what they did," she said.

"Mrs. Kapstein," I told her. "They didn't touch the study. It's just the way I left it."

She stared at me even more horrified than she'd been at the break-in.

It's now more than 20 years later. I am in a different house with a different study.

It is just as bad.

veerle's blog 

I’m a graphic/web designer living in Belgium. My personal journal is an online source for topics ranging from XHTML/CSS to graphic design tips.

I began my career in 1992 as a freelance graphic designer under the name of Duoh!. The first 3 years were mainly filled with print orientated work such as logos and stationary.

Worth a look just to see the girl with red ballon and puppy. Amazing work done with Illustrator and Photoshop. 

Insulating Bush

Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address — that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminum tubes to build a nuclear weapon — might not be true, according to government records and interviews.

    As the 2004 election loomed, the White House was determined to keep the wraps on a potentially damaging memo about Iraq.
   
Hadley was particularly concerned that the public might learn of a classified one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, specifically written for Bush in October 2002. The summary said that although "most agencies judge" that the aluminum tubes were "related to a uranium enrichment effort," the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department's intelligence branch "believe that the tubes more likely are intended for conventional weapons."

Three months after receiving that assessment, the president stated without qualification in his January 28, 2003, State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."

The previously undisclosed review by Hadley was part of a damage-control effort launched after former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV alleged that Bush's claims regarding the uranium were not true.

When I was in college my analytical chemistry professor wouldn't let me cherry pick my results. Every little detail had to go into my lab notebook with explanations. Obviously she would never be elected president.